Arthur Rubinstein Short Recital - VIDEO, 1964

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  @pianoredux7516 · 7 years ago · pinned

  I saw Rubinstein live five times, the first the same year as this broadcast. Saw him at a time when I had already heard his LP recordings of much of the repertoire I then heard him play live. This was an artist who needed an audience, an anti-Glenn Gould, to play at his best. Although he made many wonderful, even passionate recordings, generally his later discography of the Max Wilcox era is bland and doesn't do him justice.  During the encores at a NY recital in 1968,  when he launched into the Chopin Waltz Op. 34 No. 1, I turned in excitement to my companion and said, "He doesn't play it like this on the record!"  Although the TV audio and the sound of the piano here are not first-class, the beauty of his tone comes through. Thank God this and the Moscow video survive; they show a new generation how compelling he was in person. (His appearances in the film "Carnegie Hall" and a TV documentary I find canned by comparison.) Thanks for posting this.

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  @docm27 · 2 years ago

  What I love about Rubinstein is the self-effacing manner, his playing of music without the hyperdrama of most contemporary pianists, not to mention the trait of technique over emotion.

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  @karpabla · 3 years ago

  The 60s-70s aged Rubinstein is the deepest pianist I have ever listened. And, IMO, his Chopin is in  a different, higher category to anything.

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  @lastupendaboy · 2 years ago

  My hero, idol… genius..brilliant, no nonsense approach to playing the big black box… the black beast…!

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  @user-wp3ys2vb5d · 4 years ago (edited)

  La perfection existe.<br>Les mots : divin, bouleversant, prennent tout leur sens.<br>Nous sommes tous des humains, alors...quel peut être le domaine de chacun , pour rendre l&apos;humanité plus belle ? N&apos;hésitons pas à cultiver celà.<br>Non?<br>Merci Arthur . Très respectueusement.

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  @meredith218461 · 6 years ago

  Watching Rubinstein in the Scriabin demonstrates what wonderful key control he had. The range of dynamics he achieves with just the L.H. is remarkable.

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  @noemiamaria1430 · 7 days ago

  ❤❤❤❤meu pianista favorito

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  @hewhositsuponfroggychair5722 · 2 years ago

  I almost spilled on my phone while listening to this, and my first thought was not &quot;oh no, my phone&quot; but &quot;oh no, I&apos;ll interrupt Rubenstein&quot;.

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  @waynesmith3767 · 2 years ago

  Whenever he plays and I get to see a video of him as well as hearing him I always think of his radiant humanity-surely this what music can give at its best.

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  @MarcAmengual · 4 years ago (edited)

  His Scriabin was superb. Magnificient.

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  @elzbieta5364 · 3 years ago

  Pianopera w całym tego słowa znaczeniu.!! Fenomen!!!!!👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏 Geniusz niezastąpiony 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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  @elzbieta5364 · 3 years ago

  Już prawie godzina 3 w nocy,a ja dalej słucham koncertu Artura Rubinsteina.👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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